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James Routley
Personal blog · routley.ioprogrammingsystems
James Routley's personal blog at routley.io covers programming and systems. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Using a logbook to improve your programming”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Syncthing setup guide, offered as a replacement for Dropbox. The comments treat it as a basic how-to rather than a deep piece.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Using a logbook to improve your programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-23
What Hacker News says?
If you're tired of Dropbox's "be the kitchen sink" mission statement, I've been using SyncThing[1] and it seems like a great replacement for Dropbox. On Mac, be sure to install the cask version, which runs as an app: brew install --cask syncthing A pretty good, basic blog post on how to set it up (but again, use the cask version instead): https://routley.io/posts/syncthing/ 1. https://syncthing.net/
Comment linking /posts/syncthing/
on “Dropbox Capture”Submitted Using a logbook to improve your programming as a story · 295 points
HN discussion1. Have an IDE that points out the most obvious mistakes. 2. Write test (unit and functional), when you forget about corner cases writing code in TDD style may help, because it makes you think about them before writing the actual code. 3. Write your mistakes down and why you made them. 4. Have githooks that prevent you from pushing code that doesn't pass test 5. Don't feel bad about your mistakes, that's how we lear…
Comment linking /tech/2017/11/23/logbook.html
on “Ask HN: How to make fewer mistakes?”Submitted How to hand-write DNS messages as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bespoke software, and a really simple RSS aggregator as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gap Buffers: a data structure for editable text as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nine months with Vim as a story · 4 points
HN discussion